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inocubate

inocubate is the misspelling of inoculate.

inocubate is the misspelling of incubate.

Meaning of inoculate

Verb

inoculate (third-person singular simple present inoculates, present participle inoculating, simple past and past participle inoculated)

  1. (transitive) To introduce an antigenic substance or vaccine into something (e.g. the body) or someone, such as to produce immunity to a specific disease.
    • But you would not willingly thus give up the Cause; therefore endeavour to draw others into your Assistance, and venture to assert, that by the Account Dr. Nettleton gives, as also by the best Observation upon those who have been Inoculated in this City, scarcely a fourth part of them have had a...1722, John Crawford, The Case of Inoculating the Small-pox Consider'd: And Its Advantages Asserted; in a Review of Dr. Wagstaffe's Letter. Wherein Every Thing that Author Has Advanced Against It, is...
  2. (broadly, transitive) To safeguard or protect something as if by inoculation.
    • Her upbringing overseas inoculated her against prejudice.
  3. (transitive) To add one substance to another.
    • The culture medium was inoculated with selenium to investigate the rate of uptake.
    Synonyms:
    spike
  4. (transitive) To graft by inserting buds.
    • to inoculate the bud of one tree or plant into another
  5. (figuratively, transitive) To introduce into the mind (used especially of harmful ideas or principles).
    • to inoculate someone with treason or infidelity
    Synonyms:
    imbue, implant

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Meaning of incubate

Verb

incubate (third-person singular simple present incubates, present participle incubating, simple past and past participle incubated)

  1. (transitive) To brood, raise, or maintain eggs, organisms, or living tissue through the provision of ideal environmental conditions.
    • The places where the birds are nesting are interesting spots to visit. Both parents incubate and the scene is animated as the birds fly about in all directions.1907, “Nesting Habits of the Passenger Pigeon”, in W. B. Mershon, editor, The Passenger Pigeon
  2. (figuratively, transitive) To incubate metaphorically; to ponder an idea slowly and deliberately as if in preparation for hatching it.
    • It was a habit he developed, of incubating and maturing his thought upon a subject, and of then rushing into the type-writer with it.1908 September – 1909 September, Jack London, chapter XXIII, in Martin Eden, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, published September 1909, →OCLC

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Questions about inocubate

What is inocubate the misspelling of?
Inocubate is the misspelling of inoculate.

Words near inocubate in the dictionary

  1. Inocencio
  2. Inocencios
  3. inoceramid
  4. inoceramids
  5. inocoterone
  6. inocubate
  7. inocubated
  8. inocubates
  9. inocubating
  10. inocula
  11. inoculability

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Adapted from Wiktionary: inocubate (page history and authors); inoculate (page history and authors); incubate (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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